Compiz crashes with a combobox larger than the screen

[Marcelo Lotif]

Binary package hint: compiz

When I open a combobox with a text bigger than the screen, compiz suddenly crashes. The system doesn't hangs, but compiz is terminated and I have to re-open it again in command line. The print screen attached with this bug report shows an example with the subclipse SVN plugin for eclipse (compiz was already knocked down).

I will try to give as much information as I can, since apport is not triggered with this bug.

Distro Release: Ubuntu 10.04
Architecture: amd64
compiz --version: compiz 0.8.4
Gnome Version: 2.30.0
Kernel: linux 2.6.32-22-generic
Machine: Toshiba Satellite L305D, AMD Turion 64 X2, no additional drivers installed
Video controller: ATI RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]

[Marcelo Lotif (mlotifjava)]

nobody on this yet?

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

post a backtrace with debugging symbols installed please.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.
If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/apport/apport-qt --crash-file=/var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

This is be design. The only other alternative is for you to see a solid white window where the combobox should be as you've tried to draw a window larger than the max texture size supported by your video card.